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Lore was Data’s evil twin brother and you need to get your facts straight Prometheus.

Heres a wild goose chase...Whenever I spend more time with my 23 month old in the last few months, both me and my partner we see a dramatic change in his behaviour, progression and widely interpreted development. Its dozens of small things that change/get triggered in him and all of them are for the positive. I’m talking a timescale of 2, 3 days maximum...if I spend/don’t spend a lot of time with the little guy in that short time frame, the differences are very noticable. Its logical to assume that having a single parent will bring profound and probably permanent effects. As for intelligence being inherited biologically from either parent alone, it sounds like complete nonsense. I’m far from being an expert on genetics but this sounds like something extremely far fetched and most likely biased by some ideological agenda. At least I hope so...evolution is an ongoing process and theres recent shifts in perceiving gender related issues.

The fidelity of our description of the universe improves with experience but we can never know it absolutely because we and it are constantly evolving.

Morals being written in the hearts of men (as according to Romans) and the knowledge of good and evil (aka morals) being the result of eating the forbidden fruit (according to Genesis). Unless you want to say after the fruit was eaten then knowledge of good and evil was written in the hearts of men - you can make up anything you want. But this whole line if discussion just highlights the point that there can be no sensible discussion when taking the bible literally.

They do in electric vehicles; there's a few thousand single Li-ion cells in them. I've no idea on the specifics.

I doubt anyone will miss the fact that your position is that "every gun is an assault weapon capable of killing an entire classroom of children". If you can't recognize the difference between a field shotgun and a bump stock equipped AR15, there's no sensible discussion to be had. Just to confirm - your position is that the only effective form of gun control is a 100% ban on all firearms? You do know that the only country in the world with zero private gun ownership is North Korea, right? Everywhere else effective gun control includes civilians owning guns for recreational activities.

Dogged determination?

Not sure i understand your data. What are the values of? Are you able to post at least some of the data here so we can have a look.

According to Christian mythology God didn't give us the ability to discriminate good and evil, it was the snake that encouraged us to taste of those fruits. Yes, it makes no sense if you take the Christian narrative seriously, but from an evolutionary point of view it is to be expected: these behaviours can be seen in some degree in most mammals. As a species we are improving though: life now is less violent and more equitable than centuries and millennia ago.

The best sci fi short film I've seen!

Who knew a servant would resent an arsehole from the ruling class?

I agree with koti; the important thing is to get them asking questions and then, even more importantly, get them to think about how they could answer the questions. Including the importance of doing a rough calculation to check the validity of an idea (even if you have to guess at the numbers involved - e.g. Fermi estimates). In terms of basic physics concepts that would (at the right time) equip them to do this, I think I would choose: 1. Newton's laws of motion (these can be summarised in one sentence, so I am not counting it as 3 things!) 2. The fact we can separate out vector components of force, motion, etc. -- this amazed me when I learnt it and it still seems remarkable! 3. Newton's law of gravitation These three allow you to solve quite a range of real world problems and discover surprising facts (like, all masses fall at the same rate). 4. The fact that some properties are conserved and that this is related to fundamental symmetries (and point out that this was proved by a woman, as science so often seems dominated by male figures) 5. Point out that all the above are only approximations and that they will find out that the real world is actually more complex and more interesting.

Just build one on earth, like hyperloop

"A" seems to be the instructions for shooting kids in a classroom except that, in order to deal with "B" you need to make sure you get close. I doubt an mass shooter would not recognise that. I also doubt that people reading this will fail to spot that you have gone from "guns don't't kill: people do" to simply "my guns don't kill people". That's the problem; they can and (more generally) they do.